President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a first-time nonviolent drug offender, two White House officials told CNN, a week after Kim Kardashian West pleaded her case during an Oval Office meeting with Trump.

Johnson was released from an Alabama prison Wednesday after 21 years behind bars.

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"I feel like my life is starting over again," an emotional Johnson told reporters outside the prison in Aliceville.

A van transported Johnson outside the prison, and when she stepped out, she ran toward waiting family members who greeted her with hugs, flowers and tears.

Johnson has already served 21 years of a life sentence after she was convicted on charges of conspiracy to possess cocaine and attempted possession of cocaine, according to the nonprofit CAN-DO Foundation, which advocates for clemency for nonviolent drug offenders.

Trump has issued five pardons since taking office and Wednesday's move is the second act of clemency granted by Trump after a celebrity appealed to him. Last month, Trump posthumously pardoned the boxer Jack Johnson after the actor Sylvester Stallone raised his case with the president.

Trump has pardoned former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, former Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza and Kristian Saucier, a Navy sailor who pleaded guilty to an unauthorized possession of classified information and who argued that he was held to a different standard than Hillary Clinton.

Kardashian West met with Trump in the Oval Office on May 30 after she first reached out to Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump to help set up the meeting. Jared Kushner has been leading a push on prison reform as part of his portfolio as a senior adviser to the president.

"I would like to thank President Trump for his time this afternoon. It is our hope that the president will grant clemency to Ms. Alice Marie Johnson who is serving a life sentence for a first-time, non-violent drug offense," Kardashian West said in a statement after meeting with Trump. "We are optimistic about Ms. Johnson's future and hopeful that she -- and so many like her -- will get a second chance at life."